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United States Patent | 5,325,350 |
Morimoto ,   et al. | June 28, 1994 |
The beam of light reflected from an optico-magnetic recorded medium is reflected by an optical pick-up onto one optical or another in accordance with the direction that the beam's plane of polarization is rotated in. A data signal is obtained from the difference in the photovoltages of the two photodetectors.
Inventors: | Morimoto; Yasuaki (Villingen-Schwenningen, DE); Zucker; Friedhelm (Villingen-Schwenningen, DE); Buchler; Christian (Marbach, DE); Schroder; Heinz-Jorg (Marbach, DE) |
Assignee: | Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbH (Hanover, DE) |
Appl. No.: | 078346 |
Filed: | June 21, 1993 |
Sep 30, 1987[DE] | 3732874.3 |
Current U.S. Class: | 369/110.04; 369/13.32; 369/112.17; 369/120; 369/275.2 |
Intern'l Class: | G11B 007/00 |
Field of Search: | 369/110,13,112,44.12,44.41,275.4,120,275.2 360/114 |
4985881 | Jan., 1991 | Saito et al. | 369/13. |
5014253 | May., 1991 | Morimoto et al. | 369/13. |
5031162 | Jul., 1991 | Morimoto et al. | 369/13. |
5202874 | Apr., 1993 | Zucker et al. | 369/54. |
5251196 | Oct., 1993 | Morimoto et al. | 369/110. |